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Friday, November 15, 2013

Feline Friday: Keeping Cozy

Feline Friday was begun by Steve, The Burnt Food Dude, and i'm going to believe it's because he likes cats.Kida, our aging, asthmatic Siamese, isn't much of a fan of the foster kittens in the summer.In winter, she knows where the warmth is.

We know how to stay warm!

Today is:

American Enterprise Day -- US (a project of Future Business Leaders of America, Phi Beta Lambda Chapter)

Pack Your Mom's Lunch Day -- in honor of all the times she packed yours; combine it with I Love to Write Day and include a note telling her how special she is

Republic Day -- Turkish Republic of North Cyprus

Republic Proclamation Day -- Brazil

Safety Razor Day -- King Gillette was granted the patent for his style of safety razor on this day in 1904, changing how men shaved each day

Salt Lake's Family Christmas Show -- Sandy, UT, US (through Sunday)

Shichi-Go-San (Shrine Visiting Day)/Seven-Five-Three Festival -- Japan (picturesque festival in which 3-year-old children of either sex, five-year-old boys, and seven-year-old girls go to shrines dressed in their best; guardian spirits are thanked for the health of the children and prayers said for their future to be equally bright)

Christopher Columbus notes the first recorded reference to tobacco, 1492The NY General Assembly permits Jews to omit the phrase "Upon the faith of a Christian" from adjuration oaths, 1727Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying the Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland, 1763The Articles of Confederation are adopted by the Continental Congress, 1777Georgetown University, the first Catholic college in the US, opens, 1791Zebulon Pike gets his first sight of Pike's Peak, Colorado, 1806Isaac Pitman introduces his steno/shorthand system of writing, 1832Union Major General Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia, 1864King C. Gillette patents the Gillette razor blade, 1904The first telecast of an unscheduled event, a fire, takes place on W2XBT, in NY, 1938In Columbus, Ohio, Dave Thomas opens the first Wendy's restaurant, 1969Intel releases world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, 1971René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favour of independence, 1976The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald, 1985An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council, 1988The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands, 1988Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 people and destroyed the world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans, 2007